Welcome to the ninth installment of the EVE Blog Banter and its first contest, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!
"Last month Ga'len asked us which game mechanic we would most like to see added to EVE. This month Keith "WebMandrill" Nielson proposes to reverse the question and ask what may be a controversial question: Which game mechanic would you most like to see removed completely
from EVE and why? I can see this getting quite heated so lets keep it civil eh?"
"Gate Fire!" came the call over the comm circuit.
"All tacklers circle the gate, make sure you call your point!" called the FC.
MWD active and Ares screaming around the gate, Hamno noticed 5 Warrior II's assigned to him by a fleet mate, If they decloak near me they'll get a nice little surprise.
The enemy pod pilot sat there looking at the show around him, a half dozen HAC's and a handful of interceptors...no challenge. As easy as activating a few modules he warped away under the protection his Covert Ops cloak provided the Arazu.
Arazu on overview...and its gone. Damn...well I guess we'd never get a cloaker unless we had a bubble. Hamno keyed his comms "Unable to lock before he cloaked". Settling back into his orbit around the gate he saw the enemy pod pilot remaining in local, 5 minutes....10 minutes...20 minutes later he was still there.
Hamno docked up, returning a few hours later after letting the technicians do some much needed repairs to his ship. Enemy pod pilot still in local....
"Another AFK cloaker?" Hamno asked his navigator...
"Yep, fifth one this week".
The game mechanic I would like to see removed is the ability for a ship to sit AFK for hours on end. What if the system actually realized you were afk(from absolutely no interaction with the UI) and logged you off?
The AFK cloaker was simply the first example of AFK-ness that came to mind as I wrote this, but I also cursed against such things each time I try to enter Jita these days. I completely understand having a 1000 player limit for the system, but does anyone honestly think that those hundreds upon hundreds of alts sitting in Jita 4-4 are actively buying/selling...or just sitting AFK waiting for their mains to be curious about the Jita price on some item.
Anyone who has been stuck at the entrance gate to Jita with a cargo hold full of valuable items must have wondered this at some point.
List of Participants:
- Diary of a Space Jockey, Blog Banter: BE GONE!
- EVE Newb, (EVE) Remove You
- Miner With Fangs, Blog Banter - It's the Scotch
- The Eden Explorer, Blog Banter: The Map! The Map!
- The Wandering Druid of Tranquility, "Beacons, beacons, beacons, beacons, beacons, mushroom, MUSHROOM!!!"
- Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah, Kill the Rats
- Mercspector @ EVE, Scotty
- EVE's Weekend Warrior, EVE Blog Banter #9
- Miner with Fangs, Blog Banter - It's the Scotch
- A Merry Life and a Short One, Eve Blog Banter #9: Why Won't You Die?
- Into the unknown with gun and camera, Blog Banter – The Hokey Cokey
- The Flightless Geek, EVE Blog Banter #9: Remove a Game Mechanic
- Sweet Little Bad Girl, Blog Banter 9: Who is Nibbling at My House?
- One Man and His Spaceship, Blog Banter 9: What could you do without?
- Life in Low Sec, EVE Blog Banter #9: Stop Tarnishing My Halo
- Cle Demaari: Citizen, Blog Banter #9: Training for all my men!
- A Mule in EVE, He who giveth, also taketh away?
- Dense Veldspar, Blog Banter 9
- Morphisat’s Blog, Blog Banter #9 – Randomness Be Gone !
- Facepalm's Blog, EVE Blog Banter #9: What a new pilot could do without
- Memoires of New Eden, You're Fired
- Kyle Langdon's Journeys in EVE, EVE Blog Banter #9 Titans? What's a Titan?
- Achernar, The gates! The gates are down!
- Speed Fairy, EVE Blog Banter #9: Down with Downtime!
- I am Keith Neilson, EVE Blog Banter #9-F**K Da Police
- Ripe Lacunae, The UI… Where do I begin… (Eve Blog Banter #9)
- Clown Punchers, EvE Blogs: What game mechanic would you get rid of?
- More articles as they are posted!
3 comments:
Seems the solution to your problem is to remove Local ;-) Ok, not that old solution again.
I go AFK so often its not funny. But then its often the only way to play EVE, RL has a two year olds habbit of spilling a can of milk all over the kitchen flour.
I agree. It does get annoying when I'm looking for prey and all I can find are afk pilots sitting at a POS.
I can understand how this would be annoying. But keep in mind as far as Jita goes - you can check prices from any location, and do buying, and if you have the skills for it, even selling from another system.
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